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What Our Fantasies About the European “Middle Ages” Say About Us

Avatar photo by Anne Wallentine August 9, 2022August 11, 2022

An exhibition depicts how people have reimagined the medieval period in the centuries since, and how they have revealed their own interests and ideals with each new interpretation.

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What Makes Medieval Art So Meme-able?

by Alicia Eler April 28, 2022April 29, 2022

All over Instagram, medieval imagery has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious, depending on your sense of humor.

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The Medieval Body Balances the Heavenly and Corporeal

Avatar photo by Jillian McManemin March 9, 2022March 9, 2022

Central to The Medieval Body at Luhring Augustine is the tension between the bloodied or bruised abject body and the beatified soul.

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A Look at the Holy Roman Empire’s Most Splendid Books

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford November 14, 2021November 15, 2021

A new book joins meticulous historical analysis with more than 150 lush, full-color illustrations of these magnificent books and their elaborate bindings.

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Women Saints Who Defied the Patriarchy

by Daniel Larkin February 17, 2020February 14, 2020

As tyranny surges in 2020, imagery of these holy ladies — on view in Gothic Spirit: Medieval Art — might offer more than first expected.

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A Dive Into Medieval Knighthood in Art

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas May 30, 2019May 29, 2019

This gallery talk at the Met Cloisters in New York will focus on knighthood and its hidden secrets in art from medieval times.

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English Translations of Obscure Medieval Texts Go Online

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 24, 2017May 31, 2022

Stanford University’s Global Medieval Sourcebook is a new online compendium of English translations for overlooked Middle Ages texts.

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Captivating Objects from the Met’s Sprawling Exhibition on Medieval Jerusalem

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 4, 2017

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York takes an on-the-ground view of life, war, and devotion in Jerusalem during the medieval era.

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Saved by Shakespeare’s Father, a Series of Medieval Murals Is Finally Restored

by Claire Voon December 14, 2016December 15, 2016

A group of wall paintings in Stratford-upon-Avon’s Guild Chapel should have been destroyed in 1563, but John Shakespeare had them covered in limewash instead, preserving them for centuries.

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The Hidden History of Recycling in Medieval Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 29, 2016August 29, 2016

It’s easy to forget that a historic artifact preserved in a museum is not a static object.

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Bright Lights, Blinged Bible at the Morgan Library

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 23, 2016October 15, 2022

The 9th-century Lindau Gospels, named for its former home at the Lindau Abbey on Lake Constance in Germany, wasn’t the first book J. Pierpont Morgan purchased for his library, but in the collections of the Morgan Library & Museum, it’s labeled “MS M. 1.”

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A Bestiary for the Magnificently Wrong Monsters of Medieval Times

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 17, 2015

Beyond the borders of maps, where the limits of exploration fell to imagination, medieval artists and authors created monsters.

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